SCREENING: Fox Maxy's GUSH

SCREENING: Fox Maxy's GUSH

⌚️2023-05-25 06:00:00 – 2023-05-25 08:00:00
🏢2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA

Mezzanine and the International Documentary Association (IDA) present Fox Maxy’s GUSH. (2023, U.S., 71m, DCP)

Los Angeles premiere! Filmmaker in person!

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In her first feature, acclaimed video artist Fox Maxy uncorks a deluge of images captured and created over nearly 10 years. Drawn from Maxy’s personal archives, *Gush* is a kaleidoscopic swirl of moments that exists outside of common genres and forms, evoking through recalled words and rhyming visuals the experience of trauma and recovery. Using a mix of original documentary footage, archival television clips, animation, and other formats, sometimes layered on top of one another, Maxy interrogates sexual violence and personal freedom in a highly intimate, deeply personal style. *Gush* provides a space for celebrating confidence, community, and joy—even and especially amidst the sensory barrage of contemporary living. (-New Directors/New Films)

Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, 2023

*Audience Advisory: This film contains strobe effects and may potentially trigger seizures. Viewer discretion is advised.*

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**Fox Maxy** is a filmmaker based in San Diego, CA. Her work has screened at TIFF, MoMA, Rotterdam and BlackStar Film Festival among other places. In 2020, COUSIN Collective supported the director with her first grant. In 2022, Fox was named as Sundance Institute's Merata Mita Fellow. For 2022-2024, she is a Vera List Center Borderlands Fellow. Fox premiered her first feature length film, *Gush*, at Sundance Film Festival 2023. Currently Fox is working on a film about mental health.

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